Bug#644430: installer should give warning when creating GPT without BIOS BOOT partition

[Niels Thykier]

reopen 644430
reassign 644430 installation-guide

On 2014-11-26 10:31, pille wrote:
 so was this addressed in =7 versions?
 

Sorry, it seems your request was parked at the wrong package - assuming
I understand your request correct.  What you seem to be wanting is that
the installation-guide had a warning about this.  Your request ended up
at the release-notes instead by mistake, which is only concerned with
upgrades.

Sorry for the confusion.  I have reopened and reassigned your bug to
installation-guide instead.

~Niels


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Bug#644430: installer should give warning when creating GPT without BIOS BOOT partition

[pille]

Package: installer
Version: installer of squeeze 6.0.2
Severity: wishlist
Tags: d-i

when installing squeeze on GPT grub needs a special BIOS BOOT partition to fake 
MBR.

there should be a warning/advise when creating a GPT that you need a small 
special partition.
it's a lot of extra work to learn this the hard way (grub install to MBR fails)
after you spent 1h on partitioning multiple disks and adding layers like RAID, 
LVM and crypt on it after installing the system.

of course it's just my fault to have done this for the first time,
without reading all the GPT specs, but the installer inveigled me.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: 6.0.2
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (990, 'stable'), (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash



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